These are my milestones:
* Created profile in April 2018
* Waited almost a year to crack IELTS (10 attempts) to get exactly 441and not 438 because of that .5 marks lag in writing.
* Profile got rejected because of the sudden increase in required pof.
* Created a profile again in Jan
* Like many people got my ITA on 31st Jan
* Rushed and submitted all docs by 14 February 2019.(Like they would have processed my file within 90 days only if I had submitted it by 1st Feb.
How naive was I)
* Passed Medicals by 1st April 2019 and biometrics were done by 10th April 2019.
* Quit my job in May Day dreaming that my PR will arrive on a silver plate and I will be one among those who get their mails within 90 days.
* Lost access to my email ID and started raising web forms almost once in every 10 days to update the email ID. Spoke to numerous ircc agents over the time on why none of the web forms were being addressed.
* After I crossed the 6month timeline, used a completely irrelevant topic to raise a web form to update my mail Id, and also sent a mail to Ralph to help on the same. Voila the next day it was updated. Strange!
* First ghost update that I noticed probably - 7th Sept morning 3:30 AM IST
* I call IRCC on 9th September evening and it doesn’t connect through Global Affairs Canada, so called IRCC directly using Fongo and they said the file was APPROVED, but they don’t know when I would get the mail or it would get updated in the CIC account. Again ambiguity and suspense and the worst word in English lately - WAIT!!!
* After waiting for the mail till 3:30 AM, and dozing off, I woke up to the Ready to Visa mail in the morning at 5:21 AM giving a big sigh of relief.
Moral of the story like alllllll the others who have waited for long: If you know for sure there is nothing wrong with your file, hang on and plan on doing stuff that you have to do immediately after getting your PPR, because after that your brain kinda stops working and people like me go into anxiety mode or freeze mode. So use the time that you wait wisely by spending it as much as you can with your family and planning your future in Canada.
Anyways, the actual moral is, IRCC Is so damn unpredictable.
